Georgia O'Keeffe

As a child, little Georgia viewed the world differently from other people. She roamed outdoors with her sketch book, while other girls played. As an adult, she painted all day. From New York City to New Mexico, she was influenced by the landscapes of her environment. This moving book features stylish and quirky illustrations and extra facts at the back, including a biographical timeline with hi…

Mother Teresa

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ISBN/ISSN

9781786032904

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Unpaged. ; ill. ; 24 cm

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920 VEG m

Zaha Hadid

Zaha Hadid grew up in Baghdad, Iraq, surrounded by music. She was a curious and confident child, who designed her own modernist bedroom at nine years old. As a young woman studying at University in Beirut, she was described as the most outstanding pupil the teacher had ever met. With her spectacular vision and belief in the power of architecture, she founded her own firm and designed some of th…

Coco Chanel

In this new series, discover the lives of outstanding people from designers and artists to scientists. All of them went on to achieve incredible things, yet all of them began life as a little child with a dream. The first book follows Coco Chanel, from her early life in an orphanage - where she is a genius with needle and thread - to her time as a cabaret singer, hat maker and, eventually, inte…

Agatha Christie

When Agatha was young, she read books every night, but always had her own idea for how they should end! As an adult, her crime novels, with their twists and turns and peculiar detectives, challenged the minds of millions of readers, making her the queen of mystery and the bestselling novelist of all time. This inspiring story of this imaginative author features a facts and photos section at the…

Rudolf Nureyev

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ISBN/ISSN

9781786033369

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Unpaged. ; ill. ; 24 cm

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920 VEG r

Amelia Earhart

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ISBN/ISSN

9781847808851

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Unpaged. ; ill. ; 25 cm

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920 VEG a

An Adventurer's Guide To Dinosaurs

Travel through time to the Land of the dinosaurs! Climb aboard the time machine and join adventurer Mia on a breathtaking journey to our prehistoric world, visiting an active volcano, tracking dinosaur footprints and tiptoeing around a Maiasaura nest! With astonishing facts and interactive dinosaur activities, this captivating book will excite and inspire the adventurers of the future

A Gathering of Old Men

Set on a Louisiana sugarcane plantation in the 1970s, A Gathering of Old Men is a powerful depiction of racial tensions arising over the death of a Cajun farmer at the hands of a black man. "Poignant, powerful, earthy...a novel of Southern racial confrontation in which a group of elderly black men band together against whites who seek vengeance for the murder of one of their own."--Booklist …

Mercury and Venus

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ISBN/ISSN

9781406239850

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523 THO m